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31. Harley MS 3573

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3573
Title:
Giovanni Boccaccio, Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-94r: Giovanni Boccaccio, Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta. Decoration: A drawing of a human face in the lower margin of f. 12r.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

32. Harley MS 3576

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3576
Title:
Account of the families in Messina
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-26r: Alphabetical index of family names. ff. 27r-228v: Account of the families in Messina; according to Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), III, p. 43, the manuscript is entitled: 'Il Libro Famiglie degli de Messine'. This title was probably legible on the manuscrip...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

33. Harley MS 3580

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3580
Title:
Ovid, Metamorphoses
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-154v: Ovid, Metamorphoses, translated into Italian. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1*recto: Title inscriptions: '1557 Ovidio Methamorphoeos vulgare'; added in the 16th century. f. 1*recto: A Latin poem: 'Cur non omnes hunc Scrip. Libellum'; added in the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

34. Harley MS 3581

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3581
Title:
Dante Alighieri, Commedia
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-226v: Dante Alighieri, Commedia:Inferno (ff. 2r-80v), Purgatorio (ff. 81v-152v); Paradiso (ff. 153r-226v). f. 226v: Colophon by Geri di Gherardo Risaliti, followed by two lines in Latin, and the Latin epitaph written by Bernardo Canaccio in 1366: 'Iura monarchiae superos Phleg...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1464
Extent:
1 volume

35. Harley MS 3938

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3938
Title:
Lives of Greek and Roman philosophers; Petrus Alfonsi, Disciplina Clericalis; moral poems; Odo of Cheriton, Parabolae; exempla
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title page ‘Philosoph[orum] Vita ac Gesta’. ff. 1r-78v: Lives of Greek and Roman philosophers, organized chronologically. ff. 80r-107v: Petrus Alfonsi, Disciplina Clericalis. f. 108r: Latin verses, two of which are derived from Ovid, Ars Amatoria. f. 108v-109r: 4...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

36. Harley MS 4110

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4110
Title:
Account of the city of Venice and coats of arms of its noble families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-85r: Account of the city of Venice to the year 1381, with a list of its noble families. Followed by their coats of arms, painted in colours and accompanied by names and descriptions up to the family of Canabrii, originally in alphabetical order but now rearranged, written in I...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century-1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

37. Harley MS 4167

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4167
Title:
Tommaso Campanella, La monarchia di Spagna
Scope & Content:
A copy of La monarchia di Spagna, which was written by the Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and theologian Tommaso Campanella (b. 1568, d. 1639) in 1598, and contains advice for the King of Spain on how to attain universal monarchy of the world. Contents: ff. 1r-120v: Tommaso Campanella, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
c 1600-c 1650
Extent:
1 volume

38. Harley MS 4230

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4230
Title:
Articles of news in Italian
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-207v: Articles of news in Italian from Rome, Venice, Antwerp, and other places, in the years 1591-1596. On f. 46r, written in Latin, a letter signed by Sir Henry Wotton (b. 1568, d. 1639), English ambassador to Venice, dated to the year 1600.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1591-1600
Extent:
1 volume

39. Harley MS 5020

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5020
Title:
A history of Venice from the year 695 to 1478
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-225r: A history of Venice from the year 695 to 1478; with an account of the origins of the city's families. f. 226v: Additions to the history of Venice for the year 1577.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
c 1577
Extent:
1 volume

40. Harley MS 5205

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5205
Title:
Lucidarium Philosophi eximii
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-64r: Lucidarium Philosophi eximii, a tract on divinity in the form of a dialogue between a master and his scholar. Decoration: Initials in red with red penwork decoration. Rubrics and paraphs in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume